It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means! I hopped up on the scale today to get a number for you, and I have mixed feelings about it. It’s -2 from last week, which is good, but my average per week is going down.

I could blame this on my lowering BMI…after all, fatter people lose weight faster than thinner people. I think I would be deluding myself. Still fat, remember? A person at my weight should still be able to see a loss per week of more than 2 lbs.

I think I know what it is. 2 things, actually. First is that I have not been tracking my food. I need to get back to doing that. Thanks to my experience tracking, I know what a proper day looks like – how much of what things I can eat…but I think little things start to sneak in when I don’t count. So, I need to get back to counting every. single. day.

The other thing is my infrequent non-existant excercise. The last week or so, I have been sick. At first I was too sick to even leave the house, but after that the sickness was lingering in my lungs. I had read that it wasn’t a good idea to do a lot of cardio when you have lung issues…but I could have still be lifting weights or something. I have been feeling better so last night and the night before I did cardio…but I need to get back in the gym for real.

I’ll leave you with a funny story. This morning I woke up because my 3 year old was talking to me. My eyes opened just as he said “This will make you so happy!” In the dim room I could see that he was holding something in his hands, right in my face…but I couldn’t tell what it was. Something lumpy… “What is that?” I asked him.

“BUTTER!” he cried, triumphantly. I jumped out of bed wondering how much of my house had butter smeared all over it. Thankfully, I didn’t see anything. To think that when I left the butter out last night, I was worried about the cat getting into it.

(And yeah, I’m talking about real butter. Yes you can leave it out on the counter. Yes I did lose nearly 50 lbs eating real butter. I got fat eating that processed margarine crap.)

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I think 2 pounds is a great move in the right direction. It’s 2 pounds that is no longer on your body. And I totally understand about not tracking and having things sneak in. If you don’t write it down…..it never exsisted!

Too cute about your kiddo. I know the feeling all to well of waking up with a jolt of fear as the kids are laughing naughtily in the next room.

This is what you get when you take a good, hard look at the process of weight loss. Sometimes funny, sometimes irreverent, sometimes sad, always real. This is the road I am on. Sometimes I am dragging myself kicking and screaming along the shoulder, and sometimes I’m racing down the centerline. On this road, there are only 2 choices: Moving forward, or falling back. Let’s just hope there is more moving forward than falling back.

Goals:

1. Be at 299.5 by Christmas (Check)
2. Be at 293 by January 11th (Check!)
3. 10% off, total loss of 32 lbs (Check!)
3. Another 10% off, total loss of 60 lbs